Now by Morris Gleitzman

First Once, then Then, and now, Now - the author completes his moving trilogy of children's books about the Holocaust

This is the third book of Gleitzman’s
trilogy about the Holocaust, following Once, and Then. Now deals with the
aftermath of events in the first two books, and demonstrates how the
Holocaust resonates through generations. Felix, the boy survivor of the
first two books, is an old man, living in Australia, with an 11-year-old
granddaughter named after his wartime friend Zelda. This Zelda has problems
— bullies at school, a sense of desertion mixed in with pride about her
parents who are working in an African hospital, and anxiety about living up
to the person who first bore her name. Then another disaster strikes — a
Melbourne bushfire — and Felix and Zelda endure a trial that helps them both
to confront their demons.

This book is brief, but not easy to read — I was weeping by page 2, and went
on weeping — but it takes on, again, the difficult task of enabling